Fox in the Penalty Area

"Fox in the Forbidden Zone"

Early the next morning, Song Jiajia saw Hu Lai and asked, "How did you sleep last night?"

"Great."

When Hu Lai answered, Song Jiajia stared at Hu Lai's expression and found that his expression was as usual, without panic or concealment of hesitation.

So he was very confused: "You really didn't do anything last night?"

"It's done."

"Oh, what did you do?" Song Jiajia became excited.

"Qingqing and I had a special training on left-foot kicking last night!"

The overly excited fat man raised two middle fingers: "Damn, you're playing football with Qingqing so late at night, you're such a fucking talent!"

Then he threw the key in his hand to Hu Lai.

Hu Lai caught it: "What is this?"

"Your new car key. Be careful when you first start driving the amg e. Don't press the accelerator to the bottom." Song Jiajia pointed at the dark green sedan parked in the yard and said.

Hu Lai suddenly realized: "No wonder I just heard such a loud noise when you came in. It reminded me of the will-o'-the-wisp boy who bombed the street in the middle of the night..."

"You're the will-o'-the-wisp!" Song Jiajia rolled her eyes at him, "I originally wanted to give you the entire sports car, but I thought you were driving like an old man, so why would you want a sports car?"

"Then you will give me the whole love hen?"

"I can't really give you the entire Volkswagen Polo, can I? You are Mr. 100 million euros after all. At least the car must be worthy of your status. This car is neither high-profile nor low-grade. It suits you just right... What are you doing? ?”

Song Jiajia looked at Hu Lai's outstretched palm and asked.

"Here's 100 million euros! They call me Mr. 100 million euros. I've never seen so much money before!"

Song Jiajia knocked off his hand, looked at Li Qingqing walking out of the house, and asked with a smile: "Qingqing, your driver's license certification will be completed soon. I will give you one when the time comes. What car do you want?"

Li Qingqing asked: "Are you giving it away?"

"Yeah, I'll give it to you!"

"Really?" Li Qingqing seemed like she couldn't believe it.

Song Jiajia patted her chest and promised, "I'll give it to you!"

"Then I want a45, s."

Song Jiajia was stunned for a moment. When Hu Lai saw this, he teased him: "No way, fat man, are you going to regret it?"

"What a shame!" Song Jiajia rolled her eyes at him, "I just didn't expect such a cute girl like Qingqing to drive such a wild car..."

Li Qingqing smiled and said: "I'm just kidding, mini is fine."

Song Jiajia was still surprised: "But Qingqing, you actually know a45s."

"I saw it in the Benavente parking lot. It was driven by Merry."

Song Jiajia and Hu Lai were both surprised. They didn't expect Meili's obedient child to be able to fire such a small steel cannon...

The two looked at each other, as if they had imagined that Melly, who was a good child in front of others, got into his car and listened to the roar of the engine, transforming into a tofu deliverer. What heel-to-toe shifting, what kind of turn in the drainage ditch, he does it at his fingertips, so that everyone can only see his taillights, just like he flashes one defensive player on the court...

Why do you suddenly feel a little nervous?

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Hu Lai sat in the driver's seat of the car, and Song Jiajia sat in the passenger seat. The window was opened, and Li Qingqing stood outside the car and watched them off.

Hu Lai raised his right hand and then hung it in the air: "Where is the blocking lever?"

"This is a Mercedes-Benz, get out of your way!" Song Jiajia pointed to the lever on the right side of the steering wheel speechlessly.

"Oh, I thought it was the wiper..."

Then Hu Lai lowered his head and glanced: "Which side is the accelerator?" (Note 1)

Song Jiajia was so frightened that she opened the car door: "Brother, come down.

I'll drive it! "

Hu Lai caught him: "Why panic! My body remembers it!"

As he spoke, he put his foot on the brake and started the car.

There was a loud blast, and then it turned into a low and powerful buzz, and this V8 performance monster was awakened.

"Be careful on the road." Li Qingqing waved to them - the taxi she called would be here soon, and she was leaving home for training. Because the two sides were in completely opposite directions, Hu Lai couldn't drive Li Qingqing to Benavente and then go to Casa.

This is why two cars have to be prepared.

The town of Herrera is right in the middle of the two training bases, and it is equally close to either side. Therefore, it is deeply loved by players who play in two wealthy clubs, and they all choose to make their homes here.

But the disadvantage is that Hu Lai and Li Qingqing go their separate ways when they go out, driving their cars in different directions and unable to go together.

After all, other players who have bought properties here have never had their troubles - a couple belonging to two different clubs.

After Hu Lai drove the car to the Casa training base smoothly, Song Jiajia got off the car with him. Song Jiajia took a ride over to continue discussing work with the Pirates Club. After Hu Lai's transfer was completed, it did not mean that all the work was settled. It’s settled, his agency still has specific work to do.

Hu Lai first went to meet with the team's coaching staff, and then was taken to meet with his teammates.

That would be their first meeting.

No, this statement is not rigorous, because this is not the first time someone has met Hu Lai.

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Ion Martinez smiled and approached Cardoso Tonini: "Tonini, let me ask you something."

Tonyni raised his head and saw his expression, and became alert: "What are you going to do?"

"Nothing, nothing, don't be nervous. I'm really just asking a question, a small question." Martinez waved his hands repeatedly.

Toni looked at him, thought for a moment and said, "Then you ask."

"I want to ask, how did you feel when you were tied by Hu's hat trick in the World Cup...ah ha ha ha!" Martinez just finished speaking, turned around and ran, laughing loudly as he ran, just like A neurosis.

Behind his butt, Tonini kicked him in the air.

"Ion, you kid, don't run away if you have the guts!" Tonini yelled behind him.

"Then come after me!" Martinez turned around and challenged Tonini.

Tonini threw herself at him.

The two started chasing each other in the locker room.

They weaved past other teammates, causing others to follow suit.

"Catch him, come on Toni!"

"Run, Ion, run!"

Everyone put aside what they were doing and cheered for the two people.

The two of them chased all the way to the door of the locker room amidst everyone's cheers. At this moment, the door was opened.

A tall figure appeared at the door and almost collided with Martinez who was rushing towards him.

Martinez stepped on the brakes, and Tonini from behind rushed up and hugged him: "Catch you kid... eh?"

He also saw someone appear at the door.

Maxi Carey.

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Jule once again met the "good guy" Ettore Parotti, the head coach of Madrid Pirates.

"Seeing you looking so energetic, it's obvious that you had a good rest last night, so I'm relieved." The Italian coach said with a smile. He looked like a kind-hearted old man, but in fact he was not satisfied. Sixty years old, fifty-seven this year. It's just that his long-term coaching job has made his hair almost completely white.

This shows how stressful the profession of football head coach is.

"Today is your first day training with the team. Although you were not able to participate in the physical training phase of our pre-season training, I know that Leeds City is a team that emphasizes physical fitness, and Coach Clark also attaches great importance to physical training. .So your physical fitness shouldn't be a problem. Leeds City's performance in the Europa League final was amazing to me. To be able to play at such a fast pace in the last game of the season is amazing... By the way, that game I watched the game live.”

Hu Lai was a little surprised: "Coach, are you here?"

"Yeah, I watched the game live with captain Ramirez."

Hulay suddenly realized and remembered something - before the Europa League final, the trophy was brought to the scene by Juan Ramirez, the captain of the previous champion Madrid Pirates.

But he didn't expect that the team's head coach would also go along.

"To be honest, we didn't send special scouts to follow you before because we didn't need to. Almost every once in a while, we can see your performance in the media. So you don't need to because we didn't contact you in advance. Just worry that the Pirates coaching staff doesn’t know you well enough.”

Hu Lai waved his hand quickly: "No, no, I have no such worries, coach. You are all very professional."

Parotti smiled: "We only need to be sure of one thing, and that is when you want to leave Leeds City, we will pursue you."

Parotti is right, today's Hulay is no longer a nobody for the entire European football world.

Therefore, those wealthy teams chasing him this summer do not need to send scouts a season or half a year in advance to examine Hulay's performance - what is Hulay's performance, weekly Premier League, Champions League and Europa League games All reflected clearly.

As a center with obvious characteristics and a single tactical role, Hu Lai's advantages and disadvantages are all very clear to everyone. No matter how much analysis is done, there are no advantages.

Therefore, these giants did not make plans for Hu Lai in advance. It is not as high-profile as the Kings of Madrid to make it known to the world - of course this is the tradition of the Kings of Madrid, they have always been high-profile. After all, this is the only company that always says "the best players should play for the Kings".

Clubs like Madrid Pirates and Turin Bulls are just waiting.

Waiting for the signal for Hu Lai to leave the team.

"Luckily, we finally caught up with you, ha!" Paroti patted Hu Lai on the shoulder hard and laughed heartily.

"The Pirates already have top players like Maxi Carey, but no one can have too many good players, right? I think the forward combination of you and Carey can become the most powerful offensive line in La Liga. Better than the Kings' front line composed of Cerrados, Melly and Vandenberg. Because both of you are good at scoring goals. The team spent a lot of money to sign you so that you can concentrate on scoring goals and score more goals. I I believe you can do this, right?"

Hu Lai grinned: "I'm really only good at scoring goals."

Parotti was very satisfied with Hu Lai's answer. Next, he introduced his coaching staff to Hu Lai one by one.

"Jesus Valentin, our first assistant coach."

A bald middle-aged man stood in front of Hu Lai and smiled at him: "Hello, Hu. I am a coach who is very strict in training."

Hu Lai shook hands with him: "Hello, Coach Valentine, I will not let you down in training."

"This is the second assistant coach, Enzo Nacher, who is Italian like me."

An obviously younger coach reached out to Hu Lai and said, "Hello, Hu."

After Hu Lai shook hands with him, another coach stood in front of him.

"Diego Morales is the team's physical coach." This man took the initiative to introduce himself. He was thin and not tall and strong. He was the same as Anthony, the muscle maniac physical coach Hulay met in Leeds City. ·Clement is completely in two ways.

Parotti smiled beside him and said: "Diego is a very good physical coach. He speaks very highly of Leeds City's physical training."

Morales nodded: "So I think even if you don't train with us physically, you can keep up with our pace in the following training and games. Therefore, we will not lower our requirements for you in training."

Hu Lai said quickly: "Don't worry, coach, I can keep up."

"Strength and conditioning coach Javier Campos."

As he shook Hulay's hand, he added: "I'm Diego's assistant."

Hu Lai was stunned in his heart - there are two assistant coaches and two physical coaches. Madrid Pirates and Leeds City are indeed different. A wealthy club is a wealthy club...

"Goalkeeping coach Ramon Lopez."

A tall man who needed Hu Lai to look up smiled and extended his hand to him: "I only retired two seasons ago. Before that, I played for the Pirates for ten years. I am familiar with everything here. I love the Pirates, So glad you didn’t go to King, ha!”

Hulay met with the coaching staff one by one. He didn't know if it was a necessary process for every player who joined the Madrid Pirates, or if only he had such special treatment.

After all, he is "Mr. 100 Million"...

Fuck, the media talks about it all the time, I have to believe it!

After meeting with the coaching staff, the door to the head coach's office was knocked open and someone walked in.

Parotti introduced to Hulay: "This is Juan Ramirez, the captain of the team. He will take you to meet other players. I hope you get along well."

Hu Lai nodded, said goodbye to the coaching staff, and left with the captain.

Valentin waited until they closed the door and went out, then said to Parotti: "It seems that Hu is an easy person to get along with."

Fitness coach Morales agreed: "He is very polite. He and Maxi are two completely different types of people."

Speaking of Maxi Carey, Parotti remained silent.

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"I watched the Europa League final live, and your two goals were very beautiful. I am very happy that someone finally broke the Navigator's record of 'everyone who reaches the Europa League final must win'."

On the way from the coach's office to the locker room, captain Juan Ramirez struck up a conversation with Hulay.

Hu Lai was a little surprised: "Aren't you both a Spanish team? Shouldn't you be on the same front as each other?"

After all, if Navigators win the championship, the Europa League honor belongs to Spanish football.

But Ramirez shook his head: "We don't deal with them."

"Why?"

"Look at the names of our two teams. They are navigators and we are pirates. They are natural enemies." Ramirez said and laughed, and then said: "You're kidding. We have a grudge against them. But not because of the name. Anyway, remember, Hu, if you score a goal in the game against the Navigators, you will quickly win the recognition of Pirates fans..."

Hu Lai thought of the scene he saw in the lounge yesterday, pointed at himself and said: "But captain, I feel like the Pirates fans recognize me quite highly..."

Ramirez reacted and laughed again: "That's right! You are the one who rejected the King twice in a row! The whole world thought you were going to the King of Madrid, but you ended up coming to us. Well done! Pirates! The fans love anyone who goes against the King, so you really win over them."

Today is Hulay's first day officially joining the Madrid Pirates. He has already felt the hatred between these mortal enemies in the same city before he has even met his teammates.

This was very new and interesting for him who had never had any similar experience before.

They say "no derby, no football", and he finally had the opportunity to experience derby.

"Guys are very easy to get along with. Pirates are not kings, and we are not as pretentious as they are. We will speak out directly about anything, even if it is a conflict, we are not afraid, it can be solved by speaking out. If you don't speak out, you will keep it in your heart, and no one will know. , it became a bomb. So if there is any problem, you can go to me, if I'm not here, go to Riva, Riva Moreno, he is the second captain of the team. The third captain is Joaquin Bella. I will introduce you one by one in a moment... You can also say it directly to the team, but no matter what it is, remember, Hu, everything is limited to within the team, you know? "

When he was about to walk to the locker room, captain Juan Ramirez suddenly stopped, looked into Hulay's eyes, and said these words to him in a very serious tone.

Hu Lai was a little confused and didn't quite understand why the captain was suddenly so serious. But he also became serious, nodded with a straight face and made a promise: "Don't worry, captain, I am the most straightforward person, and I don't have so many tricks."

"Very good, you speak Spanish very well. I heard that you are a language genius, so there will be no biggest obstacle for you to integrate into the team. Now let's go, I will take you to get to know the Pirates."

Ramirez took a step forward and pushed open the locker room door.

"Guys! New guy joining!"

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Note 1: A real thing that happened to me - there was a friend's party, everyone drank during the dinner, but I didn't drink, so I was asked to be the driver on the way back. As a result, when I got in the car, I first asked, "Where are the brakes?" This scared my friend half awake and asked me if it was okay. If not, I would call a driver.

In fact, I really had a brain convulsion at that time, so I asked that sentence. But if you ask me to tell you which side is the accelerator and which side is the brake pedal, I have to think carefully before I can answer, and I can't just blurt it out. But if I were to drive directly, my body would automatically put my feet in the correct position.

This is muscle memory.